5.2.1 Element name conventions

As mentioned in the previous section, the element tag’s name attribute is hierarchical. All levels in the hierarchy are denoted by a dot (.) in the name attribute.

As shown in the previous example, for an enumerated type, the various enumeration constants can be documented by specifying their name as enumname.constname. For example, given the type

The various enumeration values can be documented using the element names MyEnum.meOne, MyEnum.meTwo and MyEnum.meThree:

Note that the casing of the name attribute need not be the same as the casing of the declaration.

This hierarchical structure can be used for all non-simple types:

• Enumeration type values.
• Fields in records, objects, classes. For nested record definitions, multiple levels are possible in the name.
• Methods of classes and objects.
• Properties of classes.
• Function and procedure arguments.
• Function results. The name is always the function name followed by Result.